Re: NetBSD Project: Auto create swap on memory pressure

Mouse <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>> [...some kind of automated swapfile creation setup...]
>> I would love to hear your thoughts on the prototype, as well as any
>> feedback you may have on further improving the script.

Well, speaking purely personally, I don't see how this differs usefully
from just creating as much ordinary swap as the maximum you let it use.
The only difference I see is that it lets files compete with swap for
disk space (at relatively coarse granularity); that strikes me as more
of a bug than a feature, in that I wouldn't want either to be capable
of running the other out of space, so presumably there's some use case
I'm missing where that's useful.

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